Japan journal 1855-1861. Translated & edited

by J.C. Van der Corput & R. A. Wilson by Henry Heusken

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First edition

New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1964 . First edition, 8vo, pp. xviii, 247, 1 ; 8 illustrations on rectos and versos of 2 plates; fine copy in a fine but somewhat faded price-clipped dust jacket. This book is the first translation into English of the journal of Henry Heusken, who was the secretary to Townsend Harris, the first American Consul-General in Japan. Heusken kept his journal from October 25, 1855, when he sailed from New York, until shortly

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